• enPR: pŭt, IPA: /pʌt/
• (Australia) IPA: [pʰat]
• (Canada, America) IPA: [pʰʌt], [pʰət]
• (RP) IPA: [pʰɐt]
• (Northern England) IPA: /pʊt/, IPA: [pʰʊt]

Borrowed from Scots putt.

putt (plural putts)

1. (golf) The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.

putt (putts, present participle putting; simple past and past participle putted)

1. (golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC ↗:

     There were the golfers. Was it possible that they were going on with their game? Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole.

• mini-putt
• pitch and putt
• putt from the rough
• putter
• putting green

putt (plural putts)

1. (onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
2. (British, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.

putt (putts, present participle putting; simple past and past participle putted)

1. To make a putting sound.
2. (motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
3. To move along slowly.

putt (putts, present participle putting; simple past and past participle putt)

1. Obsolete form of put
   • c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:

     We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.